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F115 --- $SOLD --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below
diameter: 5"
height: 4"
finish: one application of natural stain then two coats of high gloss spar polyurethane (with UV blocker)
WOODS USED: [SEE DISCUSSION ON THE MAIN PAGE OF THIS SITE IF ANY OF THIS IS UNCLEAR]
base: African mahogany
center: walnut
view 1: mahogany(?) over a roughly bookmatched piece of pine chosen for curvy grain, over red elm, over mahogany and all of that backed by a red oak thin then mahogany
view 2: corner wedge of macassar ebony
view 3: padauk over red aromatic cedar over machiche? over sen and all backed by osage orange, ? (brown wood) thin, dark veneer, pine, ? (honey brown wood)
view 4: corner wedge of English brown oak
view 5: ? (dark brown) over a lamination (described later) over cocobolo over an ash thin over walnut and all backed by red oak thin, ? (honey-bown wood)
the lamination in view 5 is a center piece of mahogany veneer and all the rest is curly mahogany thins all the same thickness (two sets are double thickness) but chosen for contrasting colors. There is a closeup of this section at the bottom of the page.
view 6: corner wedge of sapele
view 7: ? (dark brown, same as view 5 --- COULD be Honduras rosewood), unknown yellowish tan wood (yellowheart?), then a lamination of 3 mahogany thins and 2 pieces of walnut veneer, then a lamination of 5 veneers with walnut in the center sided by hard maple, sided by mahogany, then a somewhat thicker stipe of ? (walnut?), thick hard maple veneer, walnut thin, osage orange, mahogany thin, walnut veneer, mahogany thin. THEN, all of the preceeding is backed by walnut, mahogany, hard maple, mahogany, red oak, then just more walnut and red oak veneers.
view 8: corner wedge of sapele
flaws/issues: none
comments: none
views 2a and 6b
views 5d and 1b
closeup of the curly mahogany lamination
view 6c as a bowl blank and view 6a as the finished bowl. Note how all of the lower portion of the lamination on the right side of this view (that is, directly into view 7) has been removed in the turning.